With the support of the Government of the Umbria Region, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto “A. Belli” (the Teatro Lirico) has been able to work on the collections of the Oreste Trotta Regional Sound Archive (the Fonoteca) in order to enhance and promote published and unpublished bibliographic musical collections associated with lyric opera.
Because its effective online information system already facilitates the searching and retrieval of documentary materials – supported by the xDam system – the Teatro Lirico was identified as an ideal partner for the project.
The first phase of cataloguing and digitalisation of published musical materials relating to lyric opera, kept among the bibliographical collections of the Trotta Sound Archive of Perugia, took place between October 2017 and February 2018.
After appropriate training on the use of the software and the descriptive standard, as prescribed by the Istituto Centrale per il Catologo Unico, the team at the Teatro Lirico has catalogued and digitized the documentary material (scores and sheet music) with the drafting of 2102 catalogue sheets of published musical material, done according to descriptive standards, and the acquisition in "pdf" format of 532 works.
All work materials have been saved in HD. The inventories can be viewed online through the digital catalogue of the Teatro Lirico; the digitized materials can be found through the catalogue in compliance with the copyright rule. If the document corresponds to a PDF document, an icon representing this format appears. If the document is publicly available the file can be opened. If not, the icon means that there is a digital copy of the work but it cannot be made public for legal reasons (such warnings are published in Italian and in English). The original materials can be consulted at the Fonoteca in Perugia.
The second phase of the work was carried out from April 2017 to February 2018. The project proposed the cataloging and saving in HD of edited audio material, then proceeded with the cataloging of this material and the digitization of vinyls and other sound carriers, creating 3,050 catalogue cards and digitizing 1,000 records. In observance of copyright rules, the sound material, saved in .WAV format, will not be published, but can be consulted at the "Belli-Argiris" Study Center of Teatro Lirico in Spoleto or at the Oreste Trotta Regional Fonoteca offices in Perugia.
Please remember that the database created with the xDams platform is in "xml EAD" format and that therefore it can be easily reused by the Region of Umbria in case it decides to use the data through other information systems.